Pluto's symbol has always reminded me of that moment, someone with their arms in the air, fully at the mercy of something bigger than them. The symbol is three shapes stacked: a cross at the bottom for the physical world, a crescent in the middle shaped like a bowl, and a circle at the top for spirit. That circle is pressing down. The crescent's whole job is to catch the pressure coming from above and give it somewhere to go, because without it, everything below just gets crushed.

That crescent, that receptivity, is structural. You gon' get this spirit today, babe. The question is whether you're built to hold it.

📌 Here's What's Happening

Pluto is sitting right on the ascendant of the New Moon chart for June 14. Everything Pluto rules colors this lunation: power struggles, transformation, the kind of change that feels like it's happening to you.

But Aquarius is rising, and Uranus is at the bendings of the Lunar Nodes. Pluto mandates compliance, but Aquarius and Uranus say "I think not." This is a genuine battle of wills—control versus freedom, authority versus rebellion, and someone is actively breaking free.

Add to that the impact of Juno and Hades also enmeshed with this New Moon. Relationships become embedded in this revolutionary story. Agreements, intimacies, and bonds are all implicated in crime, corruption, and whatever power dynamic is shifting. Neptune and Cupido push the collapse of these shady bedfellows. Together they can indicate unreliable relationships, dissolution of unions, secret organizations, connections with swindlers, and ties under false pretenses. It's real Bonnie & Clyde energy: Two Most Wanted. Just remember they died in the end.

We can't leave Gemini out. The Sun and Moon are having a romp in the sign that rules communication, language, information, highlighting what gets said, what stays hidden, and how language is framed to manufacture a particular conclusion. The information environment is unreliable right now, and in relationships, that matters.

Pluto and Admetos together translate to "the beginning of the end"—or if you prefer the less ominous version, radical change from the foundation up. It's a reckoning that starts at the root.

So you're in a moment where power is contested, where your closest relationships are implicated, where information is moving, and where something structural is ending so something else can begin.

Conference Alert! I'll be kicking off the Gemini New Moon with a talk at the NCGR-NYC Spring Conference, Love in the New Age, alongside Colin Bedell and Maria Wander. My talk: It's Complicated: Venus Meets the Malefics. Basically, it’s about a good girl gone bad, and the many ways that love and self-worth can go awry, and what to do about it. Catch me in person in NYC or streaming live on Zoom. 📅 Saturday, June 13 🕐 12-5pm EDT 🎟 Get Yer Ticket

🔮 Big Deck Energy: Tarot Card Pull for the Week

Welcome to Big Deck Energy—where I pull a tarot card each week on behalf of our collective to offer insight, reflection, or a much-needed reality check. Think of it as a weekly reset, a moment to pause and take in what’s unfolding. This week, I asked: What does "the beginning of the end" make possible?

Here's what the Tarot had to say: The Queen of Wands.

The Queen of Wands is spicy, but she's got self-control. She doesn't waste her spark. She waits for the exact right moment to channel her passion into something constructive. She knows how to take volatile energy and alchemize it into meaning. She creates systems that work.

She holds onto nothing. She births and nurtures her creations, then lets them go when it's time. This is a Saturnian quality—understanding that sacrifice is necessary, that we all have to grow up.

She sits between sand dunes on her right and solid rock on her left. Stability and impermanence. She's made a home in the in-between. The black cat at her feet represents her ability to domesticate the wildness, to channel raw energy into creative acts.

In this moment of structural ending, the Queen is already building what comes next.